malingering

plural malingerings

1. countableuncountableThe intentional feigning of an illness or injury for personal gain or to avoid a responsibility, such as work, military service, or legal consequences.

   Owners also restricted access to medical care by routinely accusing sick blacks of malingering. Slave narratives and planters’ records reveal that an owner faced with a sick slave was likely to believe the illness was feigned.

   2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 45

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of malinger